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Picture ID 33498

Picture of unidentified spider

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This spider was huge and the vehicle headlight caught notice of it on the side of a brick apartment building in Morgantown, WV.

  • Submitted by: 
    Goldilocks
  • Submitted: Sep 2, 2018
  • Photographed: Sep 1, 2018
  • Spider: Unidentified
  • Location: Morgantown , West Virginia, United States
  • Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
  • Found in web?: Yes
  • Attributes:
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TangledWeb

Hi, she’s a gravid Neoscona crucifera. The female orbweavers are much larger than the males developmentally. Their abdomens also stretch quite a bit as their eggs develop. It will shrink down to a more normal size once she’s deposited her eggs into egg sacks.

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